This classic collection includes the title story, acclaimed as
Asimov's single finest Robot tale, and now made into a Hollywood
movie starring Robin Williams. Each of the eleven stories here
sparkle with characteristic Asimov inventiveness and imagination.

Autor : John Grisham, This is the shocking true story of death row inmate Ronald Williamson. It is a story of failed dreams, madness, rape and murder, a botched trial, a death sentence and a twelve-year fight to win justice for a wronged man. While in prison serving a short sentence for a petty felony, a fellow prisoner alleged that he had heard Ronald Williamson confess to the unsolved rape and murder of a local bar girl. Williamson stood no chance in court and was sentenced to death. One of t...

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives. Not a single word is superflous in this widely admired masterpiece, which once and for all established his place as one o...

Inventor. Visionary. Genius. Dropout. Adopted. Steve Jobs was the
founder of Apple and he was all of these things. Steve Jobs has
been described as a showman, artist, tyrant, genius, jerk. Through
his life he was loved, hated, admired and dismissed, yet he was a
living legend; the genius who founded Apple in his parent's garage
when he was just 20 years old, revolutionising the music world. He
single-handedly introduced the first computer that could sit on
your desk and founded and nurtured a c...

Set in the heart of the Wessex, this book charts the rise and
downfall of a single 'man of character'. It's moving and contrived
narrative is Shakespearian in its force, and features some of the
author's episodes and passages of description.

Set in the heart of the Wessex, this book charts the rise and downfall of a single 'man of character'. It's moving and contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its force, and features some of the author's episodes and passages of description.

Autor : Jane Austenová, Everybody knows that it is true that any rich, single man must definitely want a wife. And, of course, all mothers think this rich, single man is the perfect partner for one or another of their daughters.’ Tag Love & Friendship In this Reader you will find: - Information about Jane Austen’s life - Sections focusing on background and context - Glossary of difficult words - Comprehension activities - PET-style activities - Exit test Mrs Bennet has five daughters and they a...

Vicky Harper is still hopelessly single and having to face up to the unpalatable fact that the last time she had a relationship with that highly elusive species, the decent single man, was well before Phantom of the Opera hit Broadway. So, having discovered an ancient book which says you can have anything you want from the Universe...and that all you need do is ask, she decides to give it a whirl. Turns out all she has to do is focus on thinking her wildest fantasies into reality. Kind of like ...

Vicky Harper is still hopelessly single and having to face up to
the unpalatable fact that the last time she had a relationship with
that highly elusive species, the decent single man, was well before
Phantom of the Opera hit Broadway. So, having discovered an ancient
book which says you can have anything you want from the
Universe...and that all you need do is ask, she decides to give it
a whirl. Turns out all she has to do is focus on thinking her
wildest fantasies into reality. Kind of like ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a
single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a
wife.' Austen's best-loved tale of love, marriage and society in
class-conscious Georgian England still delights modern readers
today with its comedy and characters. It follows the feisty,
quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet as her parents seek to ensure good
marriages for her and her sisters in order to sec...

Autor : Mark Mills, Mark B. Mills, No-one ever called Dan a pushover. But then no-one ever called him fast-track either. He likes driving slowly, playing Sudoku on his iPhone, swapping one scruffy jumper for another. He's been with Clara for four years and he's been perfectly happy; but now she's left him, leaving nothing but a long letter filled with incriminations and a small, white, almost hairless dog, named Doggo. So now Dan is single, a man without any kind of partner whether working or i...

For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels
filled with suspense, action and sheer audacity. Now he does it
again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical
thrillers in years. April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam
locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is
all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But
it is not the engine nor its grisly contents that interest the
people watching nearby. It is what is about to come...

A man who changed history The Prague Castle as the centre of Europe
Thirty-seven magnificent years of Prague. At the end of the 16th
century, Prague and in particular the Prague Castle became the
European center of occult science, astrology and alchemy as well as
international politics and scientific research of astronomers,
physicians and botanists. The capital city of the monarchy also
enticed the most renowned artists of that time ? painters, etchers,
sculptors and musicians. Even though it ...

'he carried Good-nature to that wonderful and uncommon Height, that
he never did a single Injury to Man or Woman, by which he himself
did not expect to reap some Advantage' The real-life Jonathan Wild,
gangland godfather and self-styled 'Thieftaker General', controlled
much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes
in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted
attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and
satirists made connections between hi...

London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing
and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson
can neither comfort nor rouse his friend – until a strangely
encoded letter arrives from Paris. Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful
French cabaret star writes that her illegitimate son by an English
lord has disappeared, and she has been attacked in the streets of
Montmartre.
Racing to Paris with Watson at his side, Holmes discovers the
missing child is only the tip...

Art in the Blood - MacBird Bonnie London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend – until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris.Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful French cabaret star writes that her illegitimate son by an English lord has disappeared, and she has been attacked in the streets of Montmartre.Racing to Paris with Watson at his side, Holmes discovers th...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010
NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING BRIE LARSON
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key.
Jack and Ma are prisoners.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Orange
Prize Jack is five. He lives in a single, locked room with his Ma.
Room by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a
mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price
of, freedom.

A box of possessions.A father with no memory.A daughter with just
one day to piece together the past.When Sabrina Boggs stumbles upon
a mysterious collection of her father's belongings, her seemingly
uneventful life suddenly alters and shifts.In the single day she
has to search for answers about the man she thought she knew, a man
who can no longer remember his own story, Sabrina uncovers far
bigger secrets than she could have imagined. And discovers that
sometimes it's the people closest to us...

This is a brand new very funny Christmas novel, from the
bestselling author of No-One Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday and Single
Woman Seeks Revenge. There comes a time in every woman's life when
the only answer is to marry George Clooney. For Michelle, that time
is now. Slogging her guts out in a chicken factory whilst
single-handedly bringing up a teenager who hates her is far from
the life that 36-year-old Michelle had planned. But marrying the
most eligible man on the planet by Christmas could ch...

It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and
celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on
earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps
now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war
is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European
civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come.
He knows this because, for him, that century is already history.
Somehow he must change that history. He mus...

Autor : Howard Linskey, TWO MEN. . . ONE MISSION. . . TO KILL THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART
Based on true events, this gripping historical thriller is the culmination of Howard Linskey's fifteen-year fascination with the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust. With a plot that echoes The Day of the Jackal and The Eagle Has Landed, Hunting the Hangman is a thrilling tale of courage, resilience and betrayal. The story reads like a classic World War Two thriller...

The Marble Collector - Cecelia Ahern A box of possessions.A father with no memory.A daughter with just one day to piece together the past.When Sabrina Boggs stumbles upon a mysterious collection of her father's belongings, her seemingly uneventful life suddenly alters and shifts.In the single day she has to search for answers about the man she thought she knew, a man who can no longer remember his own story, Sabrina uncovers far bigger secrets than she could have imagined. And discovers that so...

This title is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in
2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school.
Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth
form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit.
Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly
more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now
Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm
divorce. He's certainly never tried ...

Autor : Ian McEwan, This novel is set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a successful neurosurgeon living in the gathering pessimism of the looming war with Iraq. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug, of whom Perowne can see something is profoundly wrong. When the man visits Perowne's home that evening, the savage consequences lead Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep this doomed figure alive. Huge promotion and media coverag...

From the author of The Book Thief comes this darkly funny and
ultimately uplifting thriller which proves that anyone can be
extraordinary. Ed Kennedy is just your less-than-average Joe who is
hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. But after he
single-handedly manages to catch a bank robber, he receives a
playing card in the mail: the Ace of Diamonds. This is the first
message. Four more will follow. But before this particular card
game can end, Ed will be changed forever . . . Will Au...

Room - Donoghue Emma NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING BRIE LARSON Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Orange Prize Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. Room by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedom. z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature od Pan Macmillan naleznete ne e-shopu K...

THE HOTLY AWAITED NOVEL FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, SET TO BE THE MUST-HAVE SPRING ACCESSORY FOR
2008. Leigh, Adriana and Emmy are best friends, all leading very
different lives and about to make some extreme choices! Emmy has
just split with her boyfriend of five years. A serial monogamist,
she suddenly realises how much she's missed the thrill of single
life. A new job travelling across the globe could offer her the one
thing she is craving. How far woul...

THE HOTLY AWAITED NOVEL FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, SET TO BE THE MUST-HAVE SPRING ACCESSORY FOR 2008. Leigh, Adriana and Emmy are best friends, all leading very different lives and about to make some extreme choices...Emmy has just split with her boyfriend of five years. A serial monogamist, she suddenly realises how much she's missed the thrill of single life. A new job travelling across the globe could offer her the one thing she is craving. Emmy f...

Autor : Mark Logue, Peter Conradi, THE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR AND BAFTA AWARD-WINNING FILM One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue...

The Kings Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue - Peter Conradi,Logue Mark One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it wa...

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who
is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old
man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi;
a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and
politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in
sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to
Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. Ray reluctantly
heads south. But the meeting does not take plac...

After generations of friction, the leaders of two lands meet in the
holy city of Ishalem to bring an end to the bloodshed and to divide
the world between them. Sadly, this new spirit of fellowship is
short-lived. A single tragic accident destroys, in minutes, the
peace that took years to build. The world is once more cast into
the fires of war - and this time the flames may burn until nothing
remains. From the highest lord to the lowest servant, no man or
woman will be unchanged by the conflict...

Morse sought to hide his disappointment. So many people in the
Haworth Hotel that fateful evening had been wearing some sort of
disguise – a change of dress, a change of make-up, a change of
partner, a change of attitude, a change of life almost; and the man
who had died had been the most consummate artist of them all . . .
Chief Inspector Morse seldom allowed himself to be caught up in New
Year celebrations. So the murder inquiry in the festive hotel had a
certain appeal. It was a crime worthy...

Veterinary surgeon Clara Benning is young and intelligent, but
practically a recluse. Disfigured by a childhood accident, she
lives alone and shies away from human contact whenever possible.
But when a man dies following a supposed snake bite, the victim’s
post mortem shows a higher concentration of venom than could ever
be found in a single snake. Assisted by her softly spoken
neighbour, and an eccentric reptile expert, Clara unravels sinister
links to a barbaric ancient ritual, an abandoned h...

I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned
at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older
cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as
his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does
himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when
Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and
marries - and there he dies suddenly. In almost no time at all, the
new widow - Philip's cousin Rachel - ...

Go on the ultimate LEGO adventure in LEGO® Minifigures Character
Encyclopedia, with an exclusive minifigure. Meet every single LEGO
Minifigure character, including Punk Rocker and Lawn Gnome as well
as the DJ and the Pirate Captain. Inside you'll find character
biographies, accessories information, and fun LEGO facts - just
what is under Bunny Suit Man's ears? And why is the peaceloving
hippie carrying flowers? You can also explore themed pages taking
you through various locales like a rock con...

The first in the Oslo Crime Files, a tense and dark quartet of
thrillers for fans of Camilla Lackberg and Jo Nesbo.
A woman vanishes from a forest near Oslo. Days later her body is
found, seemingly mauled and maimed by a bear. When another woman is
reported missing and then found dead with the same scratches and
bites, police find the link between them is local doctor, Axel
Glenne.
Forensics reveal the women were murdered and a net of suspicion
tightens around Axel, who is convinced his twin br...

While on holiday in Scotland, visiting a macabre tourist
attraction, 'The Dungeons of Edinburgh', a young Russian tourist is
murdered. As the police grapples with the fact that the cause of
the young man's death was a massive loss of blood, the Watches are
immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose.
Anton - the hero of The Night Watch and The Day Watch - is detailed
to this seemingly mundane investigation, but on arriving in
Scotland begins to realise that there is much mor...

Autor : William Boyd,
It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge.
A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M's orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web o...

Autor : Julian Barnes, Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 - a brilliant short novel from a writer at the very height of his powers. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect...

Medusa - Torkil Damhaug The first in the Oslo Crime Files, a tense and dark quartet of thrillers for fans of Camilla Lackberg and Jo Nesbo A woman vanishes from a forest near Oslo. Days later her body is found, seemingly mauled and maimed by a bear. When another woman is reported missing and then found dead with the same scratches and bites, police find the link between them is local doctor, Axel Glenne. Forensics reveal the women were murdered and a net of suspicion tightens around Axel, who i...

Solo: A James Bond Novel - William Boyd It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M's orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discov...

Roughly twenty years from now, our technological marvels unite and
turn against us. A childlike but massively powerful artificial
intelligence known as Archos comes online...and kills the man who
created it. This first act of betrayal leads Archos to gain control
over the global network of machines and technology that regulates
everything from transportation to utilities, defense, and
communications. In the early months, sporadic glitches are noticed
by a handful of unconnected humans - from a ...

Why is everyone talking about the ending of Sarah Pinborough's
Behind Her Eyes? Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a
modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and
sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she’s thrilled she
finally connected with someone. When Louise arrives at work on
Monday, she meets her new boss, David. The man from the bar. The
very married man from the bar…who says the kiss was a terrible
mistake, but who still can’t keep his eyes off Lo...

The year is 1808, and Hamish Williams is a 'gentlemen volunteer' in
the 106th regiment of foot, a man serving with the ranks but living
with the officers, and uncomfortable in both worlds: looked down on
by those with the money or influence to buy their rank, and
distrusted by the common soldiers who know he is not one of them.
But Williams is determined to prove by deeds alone that he is a man
worthy of advancement, and when the 106th embarks for Portugal to
begin what will become known as the...

Released in two volumes due to size of book. According to mythology
mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the
Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and
men. Men took root on Roshar, the world of storms. And the
Voidbringers followed . . . They came against man ten thousand
times. To help them cope, the Almighty gave men powerful suits of
armor and mystical weapons, known as Shardblades. Led by ten
angelic Heralds and ten orders of knights known as...

Emperor: The Blood of Gods - Conn Iggulden The epic new novel in Conn Iggulden's bestselling EMPEROR series, featuring a new short story by the author. Julius Caesar has been assassinated. A nation is in mourning. Revenge will be bloody. Rome's great hero Julius Caesar has been brutally murdered by his most trusted allies. While these self-appointed Liberatores seek refuge in the senate, they have underestimated one man: Caesar's adopted son Octavian, a man whose name will echo t...

The epic new novel in Conn Iggulden’s bestselling EMPEROR series,
featuring a new short story by the author. Julius Caesar has been
assassinated. A nation is in mourning. Revenge will be bloody.
Rome’s great hero Julius Caesar has been brutally murdered by his
most trusted allies. While these self-appointed Liberatores seek
refuge in the senate, they have underestimated one man: Caesar’s
adopted son Octavian, a man whose name will echo through history as
Augustus Caesar. Uniting with his great ...

This unique anthology brings together a collection of Darwin's most
accessible and significant writings to give the best fully rounded
picture of his ideas in a single volume. Features the key chapters
from Darwin's most important books: the Journal of Researches; On
the Origin of the Species; The Descent of Man; and the complete
text of his autobiography. Includes extracts from Darwin's
contemporary readers from across the world to give a sense of the
controversial nature of his ideas, a sense...

The compiled works of the man behind the evolution of quantitative
finance Finance, Economics, and Mathematics is the complete Vasicek
reference work, including published and unpublished work and
interviews with the man himself. The name Oldrich A. Vasicek is
synonymous with cutting-edge research in the finance fields, and
this book comes straight from the source to bring you the undiluted
mother lode of quant wisdom from one of the founders of the field.
From his early work in yield curve dyna...

Roboteer - Lamb Alex A fast-paced, gritty, space-opera based on cutting edge science, perfect for fans of Peter F Hamilton and Alastair ReynoldsThe starship Ariel is on a mission of the utmost secrecy, upon which the fate of thousands of lives depend. Though the ship is a mile long, its six crew are crammed into a space barely large enough for them to stand. Five are officers, geniuses in their field. The other is Will Kuno-Monet, the man responsible for single-handedly running a ship comprised...